About

As an artist I have followed many different paths. For decades I’ve been known in the DC Metro area as a figurative sculptor, creating works in bronze. About seven years ago, I embarked on a new creative path. Color and paint called to me, and I have been exploring new ways to create art.

Previously, my work was all three-dimensional. Drawing was always part of my practice as an exercise and in service to sculpture. While I had always admired the works of painters, it seemed a path for others. Gradually, my curiosity compelled me to explore. Now painting and sculpture are both in my repertoire, with painting most recently taking precedence.

This is the second time my art has taken a dramatic turn. Through college and for years after studying with Boris Blai, (one of the last surviving students of Rodin), my sculptures were influenced by classical work including the Greeks, Michelangelo and Rodin. During those years, I often sketched from live models.

Later, after graduate school at American University, I began to transform the figure in unexpected ways. Musical instruments or other objects appear in human forms. Qualities of humans and animals combined. My influences in these sculptures include Cycladic Greek carvings, African Art, and other periods and cultures. The fields of music, dance, yoga, geometry and nature are explored and combine to create a modern, abstract, personal style.

In painting, as in sculpture, I incorporate multiple sources, often using my sculptures themselves as subject matter. My painting spans figurative, still life and abstract works.

Composition and design have always been priorities in my art. While my focus is not to create art that deliberately provokes or portrays emotion, those qualities seem intrinsic to my work. Viewers comment on the strong responses the paintings and sculptures evoke for them.

There is an irresistible immediacy to painting and the lusciousness of color is incredibly seductive.

In painting or sculpture, the goal is the same; to create beautiful objects that are uniquely personal, have a true presence, and hopefully a universal resonance.

My sculpture appears in shows locally and nationally. I also work on commission. It has been my pleasure to teach sculpture at the university and community level. I will always be a sculptor, and now thoroughly enjoy an expanded creative life as a painter as well.